The islands of Batan and Rapu Rapu in southeastern Luzon, Philippines, were surveyed for filariasis from November 1984 to May 1985. Microfilariae of Bancroftian filariasis were detected in 10.5% of the people over one year of age. Microfilarial rates and intensity of infection were the same for males and females. The highest rates for both sexes were in the 56- to 60-year-old age group. Aedes p...

This paper analyzes the relationship between Voas s soft ware testability measure and Musa s fault exposure ratio K It has come to our attention that industrial users of Musa s model employ his published experimental value for K x for their projects instead of creating their own K estimate for the system whose reliability is being as sessed We provide a theoretical argument for how a slight mod...

Phenylphenalenone-type compounds accumulated in the tissues of two banana cultivars-Musa acuminata cv. "Grande Naine" (AAA) and Musa acuminata × balbisiana Colla cv. "Bluggoe" (ABB)-when these were fed on by the banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus (Germ.) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)) and the banana stem weevil (Odoiporus longicollis (Oliver) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)). The chemical constitue...

PALM and STORM: Unlocking Live-Cell Super-Resolution Ricardo Henriques, Caron Griffiths, E. Hesper Rego, Musa M. Mhlanga 1 Unidade de Biofisica e Expressão Genetica, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal 2 Institut Pasteur, Groupe Imagerie et Modelisation, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unite de Recherche Associe 2582, Par...

The banana lectin from Musa paradisiaca, MW 29.4 kDa, has been isolated, purified and crystallized. The trigonal crystals contain one dimeric molecule in the asymmetric unit. The structure has been solved using molecular replacement to a resolution of 3 A. The structure of the subunit is similar to that of jacalin-like lectins.

High Rate of Human Bocavirus and Adenovirus Co-infection in 1 Hospitalized Israeli Children 2 3 Musa Hindiyeh 1* , Nathan Keller 2 , Michal Mandelboim 1 , Daniela Ram 1 , Jana 4 Rubinov 1 , Liora Regev 1 , Virginia Levy 1 , Sara Orzitzer 1 , Hilda Shaharabani 1 , Roberto 5 Azar 1 , Ella Mendelson 1,3** and Zehava Grossman 1** 6 7 1 Central Virology Laboratory, Public Health Services, Min...

Ayurveda recommends many simple herbs in the treatment of urological afflictions like urolithiasis. Seventyone patients diagnosed to be suffering from urolithiasis were treated with juice of the core of the pseudostem of Musa Paradisiaca and Musa sapientum. A significant segment of them passed out calculi of varying size after consuming the drug for two weeks. Recurrence of stone formation was ...